Recaps

Li Xiuchang used his Equalizer Dao to weaken a group of shadows and battle a newly advanced Golden Immortal, whose apparent time-reversal technique sent Li Xiuchang’s cultivation regressing. He exposed the technique’s flaws through a forced debate of the Dao, bringing the Golden Immortal down to the Mystic Immortal realm and restoring his own strength; then he demanded to know where the shadow had obtained his Great Dao.

• Li Xiuchang equalized himself with the Golden Immortal shadow and weakened the other shadows, then killed or injured many with his Soul Slicing Saber and Immortal Burning Grass flames.
• The Golden Immortal shadow sealed the area and struck Li Xiuchang with a gray light that rapidly reversed his cultivation and made him younger.
• Li Xiuchang fought off the remaining Mystic Immortal shadows with his Equalizing Spear while realizing the technique was restoring him to an earlier state rather than truly reversing time.
• Li Xiuchang used the Confucian Path within his Equalizer Dao to force the Golden Immortal shadow into a debate and attack the weakness in his Dao Heart.
• The shadow’s Dao wavered and his cultivation fell to the Mystic Immortal realm, while Li Xiuchang’s cultivation recovered; Li Xiuchang knocked him down and asked where he had obtained his Great Dao.

Li Xiuchang captured and sealed the Water Goods Golden Immortal, then discovered that his Second Dantian world had grown powerful enough to support more Great Daos. That night, the Reflection Organization ambushed Zhang Wanzhi's shadow, but his father and grandfather intervened.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Water Goods Golden Immortal had founded the Imitation Dao and ordered a search for his true body and other cultivators of that Dao.
• Mo Tu helped Li Xiuchang seal the Water Goods Golden Immortal, whom Li Xiuchang stored in his Beast Taming Bag.
• Li Xiuchang found that his Second Dantian world had grown to roughly one-fifth the size of the Immortal Shade Realm and decided to recruit more talented cultivators to develop the Equalizer Dao.
• Xia Siyun, Wang Jingxing, Mo Tu, and Lu Yang ambushed and subdued Zhang Wanzhi's shadow during their arranged rendezvous.
• Shadow Zhang Qianzhi and Zhang Baizhi emerged to protect Zhang Wanzhi's shadow and attacked the group with over a hundred immortal artifacts.
• Li Xiuchang urged the others to capture the two old men as well.

Li Xiuchang helped Mo Tu and the others capture the three generations of Zhang family shadows, but tighter defenses delayed their replacement plan. He traveled with Yang Hao to the Azure Mist Realm seeking the creator of the Imitation Dao and arrived at the Seeker Immortal Sect after hearing Yuan Ze might have stolen that Dao.

• Li Xiuchang weakened Zhang Baizhi and his father with the Equalizer Dao and Length Value, allowing Mo Tu and the others to capture them and flee with all three Zhang family shadows.
• The Reflection Organization relocated, while Li Xiuchang learned that Immortal Sun's new alarms, Golden Immortal deployments, and central command made the replacement escape plan too dangerous to attempt.
• Mo Tu told Li Xiuchang that the Dragon Blood Tree Seed had germinated, and Li Xiuchang transplanted the young sapling into his Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang learned that Yuan Ze, a famous Azure Mist Realm genius who had ascended centuries earlier, might have stolen the Imitation Dao from a weaker Seeker Immortal Sect disciple.
• Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao traveled to the Azure Mist Realm, where cultivators directed them to the Seeker Immortal Sect and Rogue Cultivators shared rumors about Yuan Ze.
• The Seeker Immortal Sect's Grand Elder welcomed Li Xiuchang after he arrived at the sect seeking the alleged creator of the Imitation Dao.

Li Xiuchang visited the Seeker Immortal Sect to learn about Path Imitation and met Cao Wu, a Void Refinement cultivator who had created Great Dao branches for others to develop as part of a plan to forge the strongest Great Dao. After Cao Wu detected that Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao was rooted outside the Origin World, Li Xiuchang wondered whether Cao Wu’s extraordinary purpose came from Heaven or from his past life and asked if he had heard of the Confucian Sage.

• Li Xiuchang told the Seeker Immortal Sect that he had come to discuss Path Imitation, and Elder Du explained how Cao Wu had helped Yuan Ze and other cultivators become Dao Founders by teaching them Great Daos.
• Elder Du said Cao Wu aimed to create the strongest Great Dao in the world, so Li Xiuchang asked to meet him.
• Li Xiuchang and Cao Wu agreed to trade answers, and Cao Wu sent Elder Du away before asking about Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao.
• Li Xiuchang described the Equalizer Dao, and Cao Wu revealed that Path Imitation was one branch of a vast Great Dao he planned to assemble from many perfected branches.
• Cao Wu sensed that Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao was rooted in an independent space, and Li Xiuchang admitted it was carried within him.
• Cao Wu said his drive to create the strongest Great Dao felt like a mission bestowed by Heaven, prompting Li Xiuchang to ask whether he had heard of the Confucian Sage.

Li Xiuchang explained that Cao Wu’s extraordinary talent came from his past life as one of the Confucian Sage’s disciples, then invited him to combine his Imitation Dao with the Equalizer Dao. Cao Wu was tempted after seeing the Equalizer Dao absorb traces of many Great Daos, and Li Xiuchang’s promise to reunite him with his senior brother and the Confucian Sage left him shaken.

• Li Xiuchang told Cao Wu that his talent came from his Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation in a past life, accumulated merit, and the Confucian Sage’s help.
• Li Xiuchang recounted how the Confucian Sage gathered the remnants of five disciples and sent them into reincarnation, and Cao Wu realized he was likely one of them.
• Cao Wu explained that his Imitation Dao aimed to recreate the absent Time Great Dao and eventually unite many natural Great Daos.
• Li Xiuchang invited Cao Wu to join his team and demonstrated how the Equalizer Dao incorporated traces of other Great Daos.
• Li Xiuchang released Yang Hao, and Cao Wu and Yang Hao recognized an inexplicable closeness as former fellow disciples.
• Li Xiuchang promised Cao Wu that he could work with Yang Hao and meet the Confucian Sage, leaving Cao Wu visibly moved.

Cao Wu left the Seeker Immortal Sect with Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao to meet the Confucian Sage, who revealed their past-life bonds and explained Cao Wu’s obsession. The Confucian Sage then traced the disintegration of Li Xiuchang’s Yin Soul to an imbalance of yin and yang, ending by explaining that the Shadow World had been created to solve a fundamental problem in the world’s rules.

• Cao Wu agreed to meet the Confucian Sage after seeing the source of the Equalizer Dao, then bid farewell to the Seeker Immortal Sect and departed with Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao.
• Li Xiuchang brought Cao Wu and Yang Hao to the Seventh Layer World, where the Confucian Sage greeted them and invited them inside.
• The Confucian Sage revealed that Yang Hao had been his first disciple, the Gentleman Sword, and that Cao Wu had been his youngest and most talented disciple.
• The Confucian Sage explained that Cao Wu’s obsession with creating a supreme Great Dao had originated from his wish in his previous life to help his master fulfill that ambition.
• Li Xiuchang asked why a Yin Soul’s soul-body had disintegrated after its main body and shadow were fused, and the Confucian Sage attributed it to disrupted yin-yang balance.
• The Confucian Sage explained that the world required yin and yang to balance and said its creator had devised the Shadow World as a solution.

Li Xiuchang learned from the Confucian Sage how the Shadow World maintained yin-yang balance and how a failed attempt to move its Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree created Immortal Shade. After leaving the Seventh Layer World with Yang Hao and Cao Wu, he learned that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was there, while Senior Brother Gui stirred inside his coffin in the Shadow World.

• The Confucian Sage explained that the Shadow World balanced the front world’s yin and yang, and that the system depended on keeping bodies and shadows separated.
• The Confucian Sage said Immortal Shade had emerged during an attempt to move the Shadow World’s Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree into the front world, after the original tree’s withering had caused the worlds to fragment.
• Li Xiuchang concluded that the failed transfer had left an expanding passage between the worlds and suspected one or all of the Three Great Dao Ancestors had been involved.
• The Confucian Sage revealed that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was in the Seventh Layer World but was likely too busy to meet Li Xiuchang.
• Li Xiuchang left with Yang Hao and Cao Wu and returned to the lower realm, while Senior Brother Gui stirred inside his coffin in the Shadow World.

Gui Wuyan emerged from a long period of confinement with a lead pointing Li Xiuchang toward the Shadow World's Buddha Ancestor, while Li Xiuchang searched for the mysterious Pure Land Country. Meanwhile, Mo Tu and the others failed to capture Chen Changsheng's shadow and turned to finding Zhang Wanzhi instead.

• Gui Wuyan used Buddha light to reveal an address in the Shadow World and told Li Xiuchang to seek the Buddha Ancestor there, refusing rescue until Li found him.
• Li Xiuchang searched maps and questioned the Reflection Organization and Zhang Wanzhi's shadow, then suspected the Pure Land Country corresponded to the Pure Land Realm.
• Mo Tu and the others ignored Chen Changsheng's warning and set out to capture his shadow after learning its route to the Shadow Prison.
• Chen Changsheng's shadow defeated the assault of six Daluo Golden Immortals and escaped, leaving Mo Tu and the others to abandon their plan to capture him.
• Li Xiuchang asked his senior brothers and sisters to help locate the Pure Land Country so they could seek the Buddha Ancestor's aid.

With the Immortal Shade Realm sealed off and the shadows hunting its hidden experts, the Reflection Organization expanded and Li Xiuchang completed a map of the Shadow World but could not locate Pure Land Country. After a new spatial rift appeared, Li Xiuchang discovered that moving the Zhang Household’s shadows into the Second Dantian World let their true bodies enter the Shadow World through the rift.

• Chen Changsheng explained that his shadow combined the strength of his true body and clones, then sparred evenly with Zhang Wanzhi.
• The shadows launched a sweeping search of the Shadow World while the Four Great Immortal Sects cleared Immortal Shade and captured the shadows hiding there.
• Li Xiuchang and the Reflection Organization recruited new members, completed a rough map of the Shadow World, and found no terrain matching the Pure Land Realm.
• A new spatial rift stabilized in Immortal Shade, and Wang Jingxing called on the Reflection Organization to close it quickly.
• Li Xiuchang proposed bringing Cao Wu and Yang Hao into the Shadow World, then realized the Zhang Household could enter if their shadows were moved elsewhere.
• Li Xiuchang placed the shadows of Zhang Wanzhi, Zhang Qianzhi, and Zhang Baizhi in the Second Dantian World, and Zhang Wanzhi successfully crossed the spatial rift into the Shadow World.

Li Xiuchang rescued Zhang Wanzhi and his grandparents from the Shadow World, helped destroy the spatial rift, and brought Cao Wu into the Second Dantian world. Cao Wu integrated his Imitation Dao into the Equalizer Dao, raising it to the Golden Immortal level while Li Xiuchang considered the greater cultivation needed to advance it further.

• Li Xiuchang entered Immortal Sun, found the unstable spatial rift, and sent Zhang Wanzhi and his grandparents' shadows to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Chen Changsheng brought Li Xiuchang to Yang Hao and Cao Wu, and Li Xiuchang gave Chen Changsheng the Reflection Organization's collected resources.
• Chen Changsheng's group damaged the spatial rift while Wang Jingxing, Zhang Wanzhi, and the others destroyed its formation and escaped Immortal Sun.
• Cao Wu explored the Second Dantian world, agreed to join Li Xiuchang, and began integrating his Imitation Dao into the Equalizer Dao.
• Cao Wu's breakthrough raised the Equalizer Dao to the Golden Immortal level, and Li Xiuchang reflected on the distance between its current strength and the Daluo Golden Immortal level.

Cao Wu merged his accumulated insights into the Equalizer Dao and rapidly advanced to the early Tribulation Crossing Stage, while Li Xiuchang urged his allies to prepare for a prison break. Seeking clues about Pure Land Country, Li Xiuchang’s clone visited the Zhang Clan’s ancient ancestor, who appeared to recognize the name.

• Cao Wu merged his Imitation Paths into the Equalizer Dao, reached the early Tribulation Crossing Stage, and had to pause because he could not undergo tribulation in the Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang urged Yang Hao and Cao Wu to keep comprehending the Dao while he resolved to catch up with Cao Wu’s progress.
• Zhang Wanzhi promised Zhang Baizhi and Zhang Qianzhi that he would find a partner after returning to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Wang Jingxing and the Reflection Organization discussed breaking into the Shadow Prison, while Li Xiuchang asked them to search for Pure Land Country and capture Chen Changsheng’s shadow again.
• Zhang Baizhi suggested that Li Xiuchang ask the Zhang Clan’s oldest ancestors about Pure Land Country, so Li Xiuchang’s clone visited the ancient ancestor, whose eyes glimmered as he recalled the distant past.

Li Xiuchang asked the Zhang Family Patriarch about finding Pure Land Country and gained a possible way to improve his own unreliable divination. He then worked with Zhang Wanzhi and the other two to upgrade his immortal artifacts, leaving him with a powerful new Equalizing Cannon.

• The Zhang Family Patriarch could not identify Pure Land Country but proposed forging a karma-tracking device to help Li Xiuchang’s divination connect its target to the images it revealed.
• Li Xiuchang told Zhang Wanzhi and his grandparents about the proposed device, while the Reflection Organization monitored Immortal Sun, the Shadow Prison, and Chen Changsheng’s shadow.
• Li Xiuchang asked Zhang Wanzhi, Zhang Qianzhi, and Zhang Baizhi to upgrade his immortal artifacts, and they agreed that the Equalizing Spear and Tiangang Mother-Child Pearls could be reforged together.
• The three artifact refiners upgraded the Rainbow Soul Banner to a high-grade immortal artifact and then spent several months fusing the Equalizing Spear with the Tiangang Mother-Child Pearls.
• Li Xiuchang tested the resulting Equalizing Cannon and found that its Equalizer Dao amplification gave it the power of a supreme-grade immortal artifact, with further strength possible after it absorbed more Innate Qi.

Li Xiuchang advanced his understanding of the Imitation Daos and learned that Senior Brother Gui Wuyan’s shadow had seemingly died, while his main body remained alive inside the sealed coffin. As the Zhang Household completed a blueprint for a crown to improve Li Xiuchang’s divinations, he decided to wait for it to help locate Pure Land Country before opening the coffin himself.

• Li Xiuchang finished refining the Rainbow Soul Banner and Equalizing Cannon, bringing both to supreme-grade power, and improved his method for comprehending and fusing the Imitation Daos.
• Li Xiuchang and Cao Wu agreed that mastering the time-acceleration Imitation Dao might speed up his cultivation, so Li Xiuchang focused on comprehending it.
• Li Xiuchang observed Senior Brother Gui Wuyan’s shadow nearing death but obeyed the coffin’s warning not to open it, hoping to find Pure Land Country and free him.
• The Zhang Household completed the complex blueprint for the Karma Crown, which could correct Li Xiuchang’s divinations and let Heaven’s will block unwanted sights and sounds.
• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance disintegrated in the Immortal Shade Realm, while the Reflection Organization prepared a prison raid and waited for Zhang Wanzhi and her grandparents to finish the crown.
• Senior Brother Gui Wuyan’s shadow appeared to lose its final breath without disappearing, and Li Xiuchang resolved to open the coffin if the completed crown could not locate Pure Land Country.

Li Xiuchang used the Karma Crown, Golden Abacus, and Xuanwu Turtle Shell Imprint to divine the location of Pure Land Country, but the revelation instead showed the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree bearing fruit. A second divination revealed that the Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor and Buddha Ancestor had each taken a fruit in both the Shadow World and the Immortal Shade Realm, ending with Li Xiuchang glimpsing a world inside Buddha Ancestor’s fruit.

• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng confirmed that Gui Wuyan’s shadow corpse was truly dead, though Chen Changsheng urged Li Xiuchang to trust Gui Wuyan’s plan.
• Zhang Wanzhi finished refining the Karma Crown, but the Heavenly Dao blocked Li Xiuchang’s senses when he first put it on.
• Li Xiuchang performed a Heaven Questioning Ritual with the Three Great Dao Ancestors’ statues and used the Karma Crown, Golden Abacus, and Xuanwu Turtle Shell Imprint to divine Pure Land Country’s location.
• Li Xiuchang’s divination showed the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree bearing a fruit that an unidentified figure took, but the revelation did not explain Pure Land Country’s location.
• Li Xiuchang divined the fruit again and saw the Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor and Buddha Ancestor each take one in both the Shadow World and the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang looked into the fruit in Buddha Ancestor’s palm and saw the Buddha Kingdom in Palm.

Li Xiuchang deduced that the Pure Land Country was hidden atop the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree and traveled there with his companions. After his exceptional merit appeared to open a way into it, he vanished, leaving the others waiting.

• Li Xiuchang used a vision to conclude that the Pure Land Country had grown from a fruit atop the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree and was likely hidden there.
• The Heavenly Dao blocked Li Xiuchang from performing another divination, so he set out with Zhang Wanzhi, Wang Jingxing, Mo Tu, and the cook couple toward Immortal Yang.
• In his Second Dantian world, Li Xiuchang used his newly grasped Imitation Dao of Time Acceleration to hasten his own cultivation and help Cao Wu work on merging time-related Imitation Daos.
• Li Xiuchang and his companions flew through the astral qi layer and reached the top of the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, but saw no fruit or obvious entrance.
• Mo Tu released his merit-auspicious cloud without effect, while Li Xiuchang tried his own merit and then stopped responding, leading the others to suspect he had entered the Pure Land Country.

Li Xiuchang reached Nirvana Temple in Other Shore City and asked Buddha Ancestor to save Gui Wuyan, who was trapped in an immortal coffin. Buddha Ancestor transferred his Buddhist insights into the coffin as he underwent nirvana, leaving Li Xiuchang to wonder what made Gui Wuyan the right successor and to check on his condition.

• Li Xiuchang arrived in Pure Land Country, learned that Nirvana Temple was in Other Shore City, and traveled west to find it.
• Shi Di’s shadow guided Li Xiuchang to Nirvana Temple, where he met Buddha Ancestor and presented Gui Wuyan’s coffin.
• Buddha Ancestor said Gui Wuyan needed nirvana to resolve the conflict between his Buddhist and immortal paths.
• Buddha Ancestor transformed into Buddhist light and sent his life’s Buddhist insights into Gui Wuyan’s coffin as monks mourned his departure.
• Li Xiuchang wondered why Buddha Ancestor had chosen Gui Wuyan, then decided to observe Gui Wuyan’s shadow.

Li Xiuchang discovered that his merit kept him trapped in Pure Land Country, so he cultivated at Nirvana Temple in hopes of growing strong enough to escape. Meanwhile, the Reflection Organization waited anxiously for news, and a powerful, seemingly intelligent Wandering Corpse appeared in Immortal Shade, which Li Xiuchang recognized as Brother Scar.

• Shi Tian and Shi Di explained that Li Xiuchang could leave Pure Land Country by breaking its realm wall, but they could not do so because the wall resisted Buddhist attacks.
• Li Xiuchang failed to damage the realm wall enough to escape, then settled at Nirvana Temple to cultivate until he could reach Golden Immortal strength.
• Zhang Wanzhi and the others waited for news of Li Xiuchang, left Mo Tu behind to keep watch, and delayed their prison-break plan again.
• Li Xiuchang, Cao Wu, and Yang Hao advanced their Dao comprehension through accelerated time, and Li Xiuchang reached the peak of the late Mystic Immortal stage.
• Chen Changsheng fought a powerful Wandering Corpse that showed signs of intelligence, but it fled when reinforcements were called.
• Li Xiuchang recognized Chen Changsheng's description of the scarred Wandering Corpse as Brother Scar, who had saved his group years earlier.

Li Xiuchang’s allies discussed the recovered Wandering Corpse and urged him to take more time to cultivate, while he broke through to the Golden Immortal realm in the Pure Land Country. Immersed in the Equalizer Dao, he fused multiple Imitation Daos of Time, leaving his Second Dantian world vastly expanded and the Imitation Dao of Time formed.

• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng concluded that Brother Scar’s recovered consciousness might mean his original body was alive and could become an ally in their Shadow World prison-break operation.
• Chen Changsheng persuaded Li Xiuchang not to rush out of the Pure Land Country, and Li Xiuchang decided to report his safety after breaking through before returning to cultivate if his allies did not need him.
• Jiao Hong and Liang Daocheng warned the Immortal Shade Realm’s forces not to fight Brother Scar head-on, while Chen Changsheng searched unsuccessfully for the Wandering Corpse.
• Li Xiuchang began breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm and, while exploring the Equalizer Dao’s origin, gained insights that let him fuse multiple Imitation Daos.
• Li Xiuchang completed his breakthrough, triggering merit clouds and sweet rain across the Pure Land Country as his Second Dantian world grew to nearly three times the size of the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang’s Soul Slicing Saber advanced to a high-grade immortal artifact, and he successfully formed the Imitation Dao of Time.

Li Xiuchang completed the fusion of the Imitation Dao of Time, then returned to cultivation after failing to break through the realm wall into the Shadow World. As he developed his clones and used time acceleration to grow the Dragon Blood Tree, Gui Wuyan’s shadow revived inside a cocoon and began changing into a young man.

• Li Xiuchang completed the Imitation Dao of Time and assigned Cao Wu the task of developing it while he continued comprehending its branches.
• Li Xiuchang tore open a crack in the realm wall but could not pass through before it healed, so he returned to Nirvana Temple to cultivate.
• Li Xiuchang mastered the branches of Time Acceleration, Time Reversal, Time Deceleration, and Time Stop, and accelerated the growth of the Dragon Blood Tree.
• Li Xiuchang drew Innate Qi into his Blood Diamond Clone, raising its strength toward that of his main body, while his Second Nascent Soul Clone reached the Golden Immortal level.
• After Chen Changsheng told him Gui Wuyan’s shadow was changing, Li Xiuchang found it forming inside a cocoon and heard it beg him to kill it.
• Over the next half month, Gui Wuyan’s shadow grew into a young man with Nascent Soul cultivation, then stopped advancing at the Void Refinement Stage as the cocoon began emitting Buddhist light.

Li Xiuchang completed his comprehension of the Imitation Dao of Time, greatly increasing his power and control over the Equalizer Dao. After leaving Pure Land Country and returning to Immortal Shade, he found that his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters did not answer his messages.

• News of the shadows and Immortal Shade spread to other worlds, and the Four Great Immortal Sects sent Daluo Golden Immortal envoys to deter forces seeking to interfere.
• Li Xiuchang finished comprehending the Imitation Dao of Time, regained more than eighty percent control of the Equalizer Dao, and learned that Yang Hao had advanced to the Mystic Immortal realm.
• Li Xiuchang used his improved time acceleration to mature the Dragon Blood Tree and refine Hundred Refinements Immortal Iron into high-grade immortal material.
• Li Xiuchang bade farewell to Shi Tian and Shi Di, then easily pierced the realm wall and left Pure Land Country.
• Li Xiuchang evaded the shadows at Immortal Sun and reached outside Immortal Shade, but none of his Senior Brothers or Senior Sisters answered his messages.

Li Xiuchang discovered that his companions had launched an early assault on Shadow Prison and raced to reach them before shadow reinforcements arrived. As Zhang Wanzhi and the others faced capture, an unseen rescuer whisked them away, leaving Brother Scar behind to demand why he had not been saved.

• Li Xiuchang noticed that Golden Immortal shadows were rushing toward a battle and inferred that his senior brothers and sisters might be involved.
• Li Xiuchang realized the battle was at Shadow Prison and hurried there after suspecting the Reflection Organization had begun its prison break early.
• Wang Jingxing, Zhang Wanzhi, Mo Tu, and the others were surrounded after helping Brother Scar break prisoners out, and they refused Shadow Chen Changsheng's demand to surrender.
• Brother Scar prepared to cut through the shadows' law millstone and cover the others' escape.
• An unseen rescuer rapidly carried Zhang Wanzhi and the others away, while Brother Scar remained and heard an unfamiliar voice invite him to fight alongside it.

Li Xiuchang used his mastery of the Imitation Dao of Time to rescue Brother Scar and defeat the surrounding shadows, then met up with Zhang Wanzhi and the others. Chen Changsheng's shadow escaped death by choosing to die and revive, while Li Xiuchang's companions realized how powerful he had become.

• Li Xiuchang arrived at high speed and helped Brother Scar break free from Chen Changsheng's shadow by reversing the turtle-shell shields' time.
• The shadows attacked Li Xiuchang together, but he manipulated time to evade them and kill dozens with the Soul Slicing Saber.
• Chen Changsheng's shadow split into three streams to flee, but Li Xiuchang and Brother Scar destroyed all three forms after the shadow chose death over capture.
• Brother Scar learned Li Xiuchang's identity and praised his strength, then Li Xiuchang released Zhang Wanzhi and the others from his Second Dantian.
• Zhang Wanzhi and the others learned Li Xiuchang had killed the shadows and recognized that he was no longer the weakest among them.

Li Xiuchang reunited with Zhang Wanzhi and the others after defeating numerous Shadow Golden Immortals, then described his experiences in Pure Land Country and reassured them that Gui Wuyan was safe. Brother Scar explained how avenue mastery, Dao Founder status, and combining complementary avenues determined how cultivators could grow stronger, and revealed that anyone could potentially become a Dao Ancestor.

• Zhang Wanzhi and the others marveled at Li Xiuchang's strength, then learned from him that Gui Wuyan had survived nirvana and inherited the Buddha Ancestor's mantle.
• Mo Tu remarked that Li Xiuchang, Chen Changsheng, and Gui Wuyan had surpassed the rest, prompting Zhang Wanzhi, Lu Yang, Xia Siyun, and Wang Jingxing to seek guidance from Brother Scar.
• Brother Scar revealed that he was a disciple of the Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and the founder of the sword path, explaining why his strength exceeded that of other sword cultivators.
• Brother Scar explained that cultivators could surpass ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals by mastering powerful avenues, while the Four Sacred Beasts possessed Dao Founder-like authority over their natural avenues.
• Brother Scar said anyone could become a Dao Ancestor by completely comprehending other avenues and fusing them with a primary avenue into a mutually complementary system, giving Yin and Yang as an example.

Li Xiuchang and the others learned how Dao Ancestors could be made, rescued the remaining prisoners from the Shadow Prison, and decided to leave the Shadow World before the Confucian Sage’s shadow intervened. They organized a return for those whose shadows had been found, while Li Xiuchang stayed behind to help the rest and wait for a spatial rift.

• Brother Scar explained that natural Great Daos could produce a Dao Ancestor through fusion, while artificial Great Daos had to surpass their limits, and Li Xiuchang considered developing his Equalizer Dao with other Great Daos.
• Zhang Wanzhi guessed that Chen the Turtle was the Azure Dragon’s reincarnation, but Brother Scar rejected the idea and noted that Chen Changsheng’s shadow had used the Earth Dao.
• Li Xiuchang and the others freed the remaining prisoners, screened them, and brought those without problems back to the Reflection Organization.
• Li Xiuchang warned that the Confucian Sage’s shadow might act after the Buddha Ancestor entered nirvana, so the group agreed to begin leaving the Shadow World.
• Li Xiuchang and his companions compiled a homecoming list, found that more than seventy percent could return, and Li Xiuchang gave them Immortal Concealment Talismans before setting out toward Immortal Sun.

Li Xiuchang helped return the captured originals to Immortal Shade Realm, but Fu Yuan remained trapped in Immortal Sun because his shadow had escaped. At the welcoming feast, Li Xiuchang revealed his time-acceleration ability and offered to help his senior brothers and sisters cultivate toward becoming Dao Ancestors.

• Li Xiuchang sent the originals and shadows into position for their replacements, and the replacements returned many missing experts to Immortal Shade Realm while sending their shadows back to Immortal Sun.
• The Immortal Shade experts reunited with their friends and families, thanked Li Xiuchang, and welcomed the returning Grand Elders to the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that Fu Yuan had not returned because his shadow had escaped, and he promised to help the Four Great Immortal Sects find it.
• At the Immortal Dust Sect welcoming feast, Chen Changsheng explained that his unusual clone technique let his main body and clone cultivate different Daos.
• Li Xiuchang used his Imitation Dao of Time to accelerate time for his senior brothers and sisters, then arranged to help them cultivate while they taught him in turn.